Metallic railway-tie.



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Nrr vvsfrafrns Danni* METALLIC RAILWAY-TIE.

t No. 847,745'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

gamen'cealdarcn 19, 1907.

y Appleman ned Decenas 24.1906. semi Nn. 349.294,

To all whom it 'may concept.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER DURAN), a citizen of the United States,and are'sident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain n ew and useful Metallic Railway-Tie and I do herebydeclare the followingtobe a full, clear, and.

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, and tol the figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a specification. g My invention relates torailroad appliances, and particularly to metallicties, and has for itsobjects the provision of a tie of this nature which is light, simple,and strong inits construction, economical of manufacturc, and capable ofbeing easily and quickly laid, and which is provided with simple and'strong means for securing the rails thereto. The invention is fullydescribed in the followingspecification and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- .Figure 1 is a top view of a tieembodying my invention with one rail and its clampingplate attachedthereto andin which the. tie

is designed for the attachment of a clampingplate thereto at the outerside of one rail and the inner side of the other rail. Fig. 2 is anFig?, is a top view of a tie to which both clamping-plates are intendedto be attached at the inner sides of 'the rails. Figs. 4 and 5 aredifferent views of a Figs. 6 and?-` are different views of a 'combinedclamping and fish plate. Fig. S is a vertical longitudinal section of Fig. 3 with both rails clamped thereto, and Fig. 9 is a partial sectionof one end of a modified construction of the tie.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the tie, and 2 the supportedrails of a railroadtrack. 1 is preferably made inverted- 'lhe tie Ushape in cross-section and has its top or loop portion provided between.the points of attachment of the .rails withk an opening 3. The surfaceof the tie, at a properdistance each side of the opening 3 to suit thegage of thef track, is transversely recessed or cut awayv to formcountersunk surfaces 4 4, in which the bases of the rails 2 and clamps 5seat, thus forming rail-.chairs integral with the tie. One of the side,ledges or walls o each groove 4, according to the side of a rail withwhich the clamp 5 is to coact, is

part of thisv l '1 grooved, as at 6, to receive thecontiguo'usbase-flange of a rail, as shown.

The clamps 5, which seat within the recesses 4 4 at the opl, posltesides of the rails to the' grooves 6 in the i tie, are securedtherein byone or more boltsl i 7 'or other suitable retaining'means and have ltheir rail-coacting edges beveled or shaped, asat 5a, to snugly` fitover the contiguous base-fiange of the rail, whereby to securely holdthe rail to the tie. It will be noted that the edge of each clamp 5 moreremote from its rail abuts against the contiguous sidewall of the recess4 of the tie in which it is secured, so as to materially strengthen theclamp relative to the rail and'prevent a spreading there-- l vof fromthe rail evenfshould the retainingi bolts become loosened. The heads ofthe bolts 7 are preferably countersunk in the under surface of thetie-top in order to prevent a turning thereof when the nuts are beingthreaded thereto. The portions of .a tie in which the recesses 4 areprovided are made heavier, as at 8, for such purpose, and at thesepoints the tie is further strengthened by webs 9 9, which extendfrom-the surface to the baseof the Should the joint of two rails fallover a tie, a clamp 10, su 'h as shown in Figs. 6 an@ 7, is employed.This clamp is lformed with a l fiange 10, adapted to be bolted t'o therailweb., and combines both/the functions of the clamp 5 and that of afish-plate.

In Fig..9 is illustrated a modified construction of the tie which isdesigned for use on l the` construction of new roadways and one to-beusedl for renewal purposes.v 'With the.

, former it is not important if the rail-clamps 'l are disposed on theouter or inner sides of the i rails, as shown in Figs. 3 and 8; but inthe latter y"it is quite engage the same sides of the two rails, as 1s1, so that when a renewal-tie has been placed under the two rails of atrack the inner baseflange of lone therein and the outer base-iiange ofthe l other rail coacts with the other groove 6 l therein, otherwise itwould be necessary to important that the clampsl illustrated by theconstruction shown in Fig.l

tie, as shown in Fig. 8.

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rail coacts withone groove 6 v IIO 2.- A metallic tie inverted-Ushape-in Drosssection having its top provided wi th an open# y ing andformed Wit recesses of greater widthl than a rail-base, said recesseseach having 3o like walls thereof grooved to engage like struction ofthe tie enables it after being poflanges of different rails, and a clampsecured sitioned on the road-bed to be filled with l in each lrecess andcoperating with the sand, gravel, concrete, or other suitable iilllgroove to retain a rail in its seat in the recess. ing agent, whichserves both to anchor the 3. Ametallic tie inverted-U shape in cross- 35io tie and to prevent lateral or longitudinal section having a portionof its top open and movements thereof. The llin a ent is deprovided atthe ends ofthe opening with railposlted in the opening i an t oroughlyreceiving recesses, said recesses having like subject the rails to arelative contracting or a relative expanding force to place theirbaselianges in engagement with the grooves 6 in the tie.

5 The inverted-U shape and open-top con- 9 therein, This agent is alsotamped in the l clamps secured in the recesses with the rails 4e 15 endcavities ofthe tie. and cooperating with the rooves to retain Havingthus described my invention, what the rails fixed to the tie am? claimas new, and desire to secure by Letweb formed beneath each recess anddivi ters Patent, is* l ing the base of the tie into a pluralitgT ofco1n- 1. A metallic tie inverted-U shape in cross` 45 2o "section havlngits topprovided with an open- In testimony whereof I have hereuntosigned my name to this specification in the one Wall grooved, and itsinterior divided l presence of two subscribinfr witnesses. ALEXANDRDURAND.

Vitnesses:

beneath the recessed portions, and clamps 25 secured in the recesses andcoperating with I C. W. OWEN,

HAZEL B. HIETT.

